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Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?
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Teemu Likonen |
Subject: |
Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"? |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 17:10:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Heerdegen [2016-02-08 15:44:19+01] wrote:
> since some days ago, epg-gpg-program defaults to gpg2 (when installed)
> in emacs-25.
>
> With that new default, when Gnus tries to open my "~/.authinfo.gpg",
> I'm prompted for its password in a separate popup (X) window. With
> epg-gpg-program -> "gpg", Emacs itself prompted for the password.
> That's the behavior I prefer.
The present and the future of GPG (version 2.x and above) is to use
gpg-agent and pinentry. I think there's no way to escape that. And it's
better. But it seems that there are pinentry implementation(s) for
Emacs. There is one in GNU Elpa and I also found this:
https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs
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- Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/02/08
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?,
Teemu Likonen <=
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/02/08
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Joakim Jalap, 2016/02/08
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/02/08
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Joakim Jalap, 2016/02/08
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/02/08
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Joakim Jalap, 2016/02/08
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/02/08
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Joakim Jalap, 2016/02/09
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, tomas, 2016/02/09
- Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/08